Viruses Flashcards

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What are viruses?

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Viruses are acellular, non living particles

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Are viruses considered living or nonliving? Why are viruses considered in this way?

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Viruses are considered non living. This is because they do not grow or replicate by themselves

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How do viruses replicate? The replication of viruses makes it difficult to destroy them, why?

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Viruses replicate inside cells, this makes them difficult to destroy without harming the host cell

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Why are viruses untreatable with antibiotics?

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Viruses are untreatable with antibiotics because they do not have cell walls. For example, bacteria have cell walls so when antibiotics are administered they attack the cell wall. However viruses have a protective protein coating that antibiotics cannot attack.

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Viruses are described as acellular, what does this mean?

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This means that viruses lack most components of other cells

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How small is a virus?

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Viruses are small, smaller than bacteria, ranging from 20 - 300nm

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What are some viruses surrounded by that other viruses are not?

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Some viruses are surrounded by a lipid envelope

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What do all viruses have on their capsid/lipid envelope?

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Viruses have attachment proteins which are essential to allow the virus to identify and attach to a host cell

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